I like to think I’m careful when using epoxy. But what with the stress of a pot of mixed resin suddenly curing, the sweating caused by all t...

Now that the Trow exists as a 3d structure it seems unfair to continue referring to the boat with the impersonal ‘it’ or ‘my Trow’. The hull...

While shirking parental duties, work commitments and favours to friends I filled and taped the exterior seams.

Having studied a few of Phil Bolger’s boats I moved on to designs by Jim Michalak, attracted at first by the title of his book; Boat Buildin...

Our old friend the Mestral wind turned up in a feisty mood this morning. Charging round the garden like a frisky puppy begging to play, it...

Before the decision to build the Light Trow became irreversibly cemented in my mind, I’d spent several months looking at other designs. I ...

I had been rather worried that the boat was going to have a corkscrew stern. However I put it together—clamping every which way, screws he...